Jidapa Nitiwirakun, 21, Thailand (Abilities for Jobs)
When Jidapa Nitiwirakun was round one yr outdated, her mom seen she wasn’t studying to stroll. A physician identified her with muscular dystrophy.
At 21, she’s been in a position to land a job regardless of the restrictions of residing with the situation, together with persevering with to lose muscle power annually. In September of final yr, she joined the human assets division of Toyota Tsusho’s Thai headquarters, residing independently and dealing remotely from her house in Pattaya, on Thailand’s coastal Chonburi province. The corporate is the buying and selling arm of the Japanese automotive large.
When she was rising up, Nitiwirakun mentioned, “I had many goals” – from proudly owning a bakery to being a Thai-Japanese interpreter, since she was a fan of anime.
Whereas on the Pattaya Redemptorist Technological School for Individuals with Disabilities, she was a part of Microsoft’s Abilities for Jobs program, which teaches primary digital expertise to these seeking to get a job, a promotion or perhaps a profession change. She studied digital expertise for enterprise, from coding to PowerPoint to AI. She interned with Microsoft Thailand, which boosted her confidence as she was roped in to coach staff in addition to purchasers to make use of Energy BI. “I used to be excited and nervous,” she mentioned.
A go to from recruiters from Toyota Tsusho led to a full-time job as an administrative officer of their human assets division final yr. She’s at the moment engaged on a undertaking to trace the corporate’s carbon footprint, utilizing Energy BI, and does the graphic design for inside communications. She makes use of Dall-E from OpenAI to generate photographs, saving time. She makes use of AI instruments at work, to assist with formulation for analytics on Energy BI and to summarize data when looking out on the internet.
She continues to volunteer at her outdated school, “driving” her mechanized wheelchair backwards and forwards from her residence 10 minutes away.
Every month, she provides cash to her father, mom and grandmother and helps to pay for her brother’s college charges. “I’m very happy with myself that I can financially help my household,” she mentioned.
